DC Beer Doc in the Washington Post; 3 breweries enter SAVOR

Well, this was unexpected, but certainly appreciated. Earlier this week, our second beer trailer was featured in a story in the Washington Post about the recent partnership between DC Brau and Pizza Paradiso, converting spent grain into bread for the social nonprofit Bread for the City.

Every work week Brandon Skall and Jeff Hancock of DC Brau shovel about 1,500 pounds of soggy grain out of their mash tun. Left to itself, this used-up barley (it resembles “dehydrated oatmeal,” according to Skall) would begin to fester, turning sour and smelly in a day or less.

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Skall is hatching plans not only for new beers (an imperial IPA called On the Wings of Armageddon will debut in February) but also to ramp up his philanthropic activities.

Specifically, he’d like to partner with other D.C. breweries and about 8 to 10 local restaurants to produce 500 loaves of beer bread each month, to be donated to charity. “We want to be a catalyst for something that wouldn’t happen otherwise,” Skall says.

We knew there was something up when the views for our trailer tripled in the span of 48 hours.

In other news, DC Brau and Port City, along with Capital City Brewing Company, will all be entering their beers into SAVOR, the annual craft beer and food festival in June. SAVOR will probably represent the culmination of this film project, by the way.